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White paper: AI: An accelerated path to health equity
Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are providing new opportunities to advance health equity among health plan members. For example, one promising application of AI is the ability to scale personalized, culturally tailored content for diverse communities across the country. This new capability expands access to information and resources that support better health outcomes. Throughout this paper, we offer several additional examples of the potential of AI to advance health equity.
White paper: Closing the maternal health gap
Health plans play a vital role in addressing health disparities and improving outcomes, especially when it comes to women’s health as a whole, and more specifically, in improving maternal health. This role requires increased effort and a strategy for understanding current health inequities and improving maternal health outcomes.
White paper: Culturally tailored outreach drives action
Culture is not the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about healthcare — but it should be. As health plans develop new strategies and approaches to member engagement, they must consider the influence that culture has on behavior. Learn how cultural characteristics influence members and how tailored outreach helps build trust and drive action.
White paper: Better data for more equitable healthcare
Advancing health equity begins with accurate data collection. Health plans play a critical role in driving this effort because of their visibility into members' needs. They must collect essential data about individuals, including race, ethnicity and language (REL) data, sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data, and social determinants of health (SDOH) information. Learn how this data can be used to get to the root causes of health disparities.
White paper: Five Steps to reduce coverage loss for Managed Medicaid plan members
Learn the most important steps you need to take to reduce coverage loss for your Managed Medicaid members — along with context, background, facts, and figures to help understand what’s ahead when the public health emergency is finally declared to be over.
White paper: Moving the dial on health equity
Although the healthcare industry has long been aware of systemic inequities, real progress on eliminating them has been slow. There are still enormous health disparities linked to factors such as race, income, ethnicity and location. Learn how health plans can overcome the barriers to health equity and the benefits for both members and plans.